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Planck integrals from Fourier Parseval
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice. The following improper integrals converge and have the exact values
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice and the coordinate characters on the normalized one-dimensional torus .
All integrals in the Statement and Proof are nonnegative Lebesgue integrals on with respect to one-dimensional Lebesgue measure, as defined in [F4]. The integrands and partial sums below are continuous, hence Borel measurable.
The Axiom of Countable Choice (): every countable sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function; this is the exact set-theoretic assumption in the Fourier supplier.
The Fourier basis and Parseval's identity on the finite torus: under Countable Choice, the characters form an orthonormal basis of and Parseval gives .
Monotone convergence for the integral, Statement: if nonnegative measurable functions increase pointwise to on a measure space, their integrals increase to .
The nonnegative Lebesgue integral, Definition: the integral of a nonnegative measurable function is the supremum of the integrals of its nonnegative simple minorants.
Proof
On define the continuous periodic representative . Its normalized Fourier coefficients are after the change . Direct integration gives ; for , two integrations by parts give because the first boundary term cancels at and .
The normalized squared norm is . Under the stated Countable Choice assumption [F1], Parseval [F2] therefore gives , whence .
For and , put . Direct integration gives ; integration by parts on and then gives , since (for example, ). Hence and . The finite geometric identity and its limit give for . The partial sums are nonnegative measurable and increase pointwise; the monotone-convergence theorem [F3] for the integral defined in [F4] gives the first integral as .
For , the geometric series is uniformly convergent on , so integrating its partial sums gives . At the nonnegative partial sums increase pointwise to the second integrand. Applying [F3] to the integral defined in [F4] and using step 3.1 gives its integral as . The integral ratio is therefore .